Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Hi,

That's why we spent so much time examining each change for backward
compatibility.  When I'm not participating in online discussions ;-)
I'm hacking code alongside this stuff.

Rael

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, zac wrote:

> Aaron Swartz wrote:
> 
> >RSS 1.0 is designed to be
> > backwards-compatible with 0.9, if you can't parse the new stuff (like
> > namespaces or RDF) just ignore it and you'll be fine. Do 1.0 files break
> > your parser? If so, you may want to bring that up as an issue to the RSS-DEV
> > list so that they know.
>  
> I'll test it this afternoon to see.
> 
> > You also may want to start using a real programming environment. ;-) Just
> > kidding!
> 
> Kidding aside I think this is a actually a bit of an important point. I
> would hope that when people look at extending XML and XML based formats that
> they stop to think of the effect that those changes will have  people what
> don't use C or Java or link to the MSXML DOM object.
> 
> I think comments like Eric's observation that
> 
> > so it's only the *very* desperate Perl
> > hacker (i.e. the one doing CGI work on a super-cheap Web host that won't
> > do more than bung a copy of an old Perl executable up on their site) who's
> > hurt by this
> 
> is actually quite worrisome.  I don't mean to imply any ill will or negative
> connotations on Eric's part but people have to realise that these formats
> (and XML in general) are being used by people that either don't have access
> to the same sort of tools that you do or who don't want to be bothered with
> having to use / understand / implement something like namespaces when all
> they want to do is parse a list of news items and display it on the screen.
> 
> 
> --      
> 
>        Because the sleaze potential of the music business rivals
>        that of, say, Third World gunrunning or illegal ivory trafficking,
>        the fate of the charming but naive Hansons is a bit worrisome
> 
>        Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone
> 
> 
>        email: zac@pixelgeek.com
>        WWW: http://www.pixelgeek.com/

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